Transform2942

@Transform2942@lemmy.ml

I sail the high seas of the Lemmyverse, posting snarky + Lefty comments

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By that logic you can’t blame the politicians because they got bribed, and you can’t blame the citizens because of corporate propaganda and voila! No one has moral responsibility for anything

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I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for some abstract shame or morality to guide politicians’ actions when all the systemic incentives point in the other direction

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… therefore we need to build and violently enforce a legal regime to ensure that content profiteers can extract 100% profit from every transaction?

X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)

Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to...

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I don’t know for sure but I know their moderation is dogshit. I think they don’t want to face down the deluge of Nazis like we have had to here, they’d rather be a clique-y cool kids clubhouse of Twitter brainrot

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Instructions unclear: crash landed on the moon.

Still stressed

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ELI5: a database is the “memory” of a program.

Every piece of data that any software uses almost certainly comes from and goes to multiple databases.

Once the data is stored, you can execute “queries” to have powerful access to update many records at a time, read particular records based on their relationship to other records, and so much more.

Your bank balances, your purchase history, your emails, every part of your digital life is almost certainly spread across a constellation of databases.

Bonus Fediverse content:

Lemmy itself uses the Postgres database extensively. Posts, users, comments, votes and more are all individually stored in the database.

Mastodon also uses Postgres. If a post goes up on Lemmy, and a Mastodon server is federated with it, the Lemmy server will send out a HTTP request to the Mastodon server containing the contents of the post. The Mastodon server will use this information to write its own record of the post in its own database.

Regarding your question about VMs: You can run a database inside a VM, or give the VM access to an outside database via queries, or both! You might run SQLlite (a small and excellent embedded database) on the VM to track its local state, while also running queries against a large postgres database to synchronize with other services in the cluster.

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Ouch owie my bones

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Your trackpad + driver would have to have Linux gesture support, not all do

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I think blocked by you and deleted from their home instance

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I think they are “deleted user” and “blocked user”, respectively

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There are actually anti-greenhouse gasses like SO₂ (of acid rain fame(!))

…wikipedia.org/…/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection

Shouldn't browsers protect what users write from being seen by the website (like customer support chats) before hitting send? Would it be difficult to implement?

I’m sure its common knowledge by now that whatever you write in text boxes on customer support chats can be seen by whoever is on the other side, without or before hitting send. Don’t you think that’s a breach of privacy?! I imagine it isn’t too difficult to implement a fix for it: The browser (like Firefox) could choose...

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It’s pretty standard to send keypresses to the backend before the user hits submit (otherwise search boxes couldn’t do auto completion for example)

You could maybe write an extension that tries to detect the difference between this and a ‘full submit’ (and block those network requests) but I bet it would be very unreliable

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I did a little research and the answer is pretty interesting!

Originally, chemists assigned hydrogen a mass number of 1, and used that assumption to derive the masses of the other elements. Today we definine “1” as being 1/12 of the weight of Carbon-12 (which is very close to the average weight of hydrogen we use today)

As to the relative frequencies, they can be different at different points on earth, this Chemistry SE answer goes into a lot more detail.

If you have never done “stoichiometry” before it may not be obvious but the periodic table average weights are essential for going from “I have x grams of substance” to “I have x number of atoms/molecules of substance” and from there you can use the equation of your target reaction to precisely predict the outcome of a chemical process. If you were doing very high precision chemistry, the differences in isotopic ratio in your sample vs the standard values could introduce an error but I would guess most of the time it is insignificant.

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The atomic weight shown in the periodic table is what we measure based on the isotopic frequencies prevalent on earth. Different celestial bodies can (and do!) have different isotopic frequencies based on the conditions of their formation

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That’s what I thought!

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They say a woman becomes a mother when she first feels the baby stirring in the womb, but a man only becomes a father once he sees the baby for the first time.

I’m not a bio parent myself, but if that stereotype is true I think you should expect some emotional discordance during this phase.

I think you aren’t wrong to be worried, but I think if you focused your mind and energy on nesting and getting excited with your wife, it would help bridge the gap.

I’m 100% sure biology will win out and you will be changed forever when the baby does come

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Fuck cars and fuck Uber but this sounds like a reaction to Lyft being integrated in the (excellent) Transit app

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“useful and convenient”…

How about deadly, destructive, and isolating?

Or we could just ignore the corrupt alliance of industry colluding to eliminate other transportation options and wax poetic about the Free Market and Rugged Individualism, right?

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I think your best bet is lemmynsfw.com (not federated with this server)

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Hey, I feel that. Layoffs recently laid me low too.

Have you applied for unemployment yet? You definitely want to do that as soon as possible, putting it off is just throwing money away (I learned that the hard way)

I don’t have good advice about changing industries though. Everything is up in the air and tense and knowledge work is getting eroded by AI. They say there’s a plumber shortage? Maybe there is a way you could get trained as a plumber and have that be subsidized by the state

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The blasphemy is strong with this one

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No risk, no reward

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Found the landlord / bootlicker

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Okay troll, what do YOU think masculinity should look like?

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I think the author is saying more like: “A positive, specific masculinity may not exist at all”

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